Failed rainy season forces some communities to the brink

16 Jan 2014, Mopti, Mali: A group of students at a school in Nandoli, a village in the Bandiagara district of Mopti in central Mali. The failure of the 2013 rainy season has pushed many communities to the brink.

Last year’s rainy season was a failure in many localities in Mali. The rains – usually at their heaviest between June and September – arrived late and ended early in Bandiagara a district in the Mopti region of Central Mali, severely affecting some of the region’s most vulnerable families.